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Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and more
Posted by tke857 on 2/21/17 at 3:18 pm972
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The township schools superintendent apologized to parents for a recent high school lunch menu that served fried chicken to celebrate Black History Month.
The Feb. 16 lunch menu at Hopewell Valley Central High School also listed corn bread, sweet potato casserole, sauteed spinach, mac & cheese and peach and apple crisps.
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It's not clear who complained about the menu.
"The decision to include these items without any context or explanation, reinforces racial stereotypes and is not consistent with our district mission and efforts to improve cultural competency among our students and staff," Superintendent Thomas A. Smith wrote in a message to the high school community.
Smith wrote that district's food service vendor, Pomptonian, had apologized to the district and they are meeting with the company "to reinforce our district values."
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"The suggestion was to do something to celebrate soul food," Penna said in an email. The company tries to offer a diverse menu respecting different cultures, she wrote.
"Pomptonian deeply regrets that, out of context, this menu may have been perceived by individuals as insensitive or in poor taste," Penna said. "The director at this location never intended to do anything that would offend anyone and deeply regrets the decision and understands that it could have been taken out of context."
The family-owned company, based in Fairfield and in business over 50 years, says they provide meals to more than 350 schools across the state.
The high school has about 1,200 students, of which 82 percent are white, 10 percent Asian, 3.8 percent black and 3.6 percent Hispanic, records show.
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Man as a student id be pissed if they pulled that menu.
This post was edited on 2/21 at 3:19 pm
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Chad504boy on 2/21/17 at 3:18 pm to tke857
dare i ask what was the drink for the celebration?
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by MorbidTheClown on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
impossible to make some people happy.
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Topwater Trout on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
they forgot watermelon
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Jack Bauer7 on 2/21/17 at 3:20 pm to Topwater Trout
seriously, everybody and every place should just stop mentioning anything about black people
there's know pleasing these people
there's know pleasing these people
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by SidewalkDawg on 2/21/17 at 3:20 pm to tke857
The real mystery is... Did white people culturally appropriate this menu from black people.... or did black people culturally appropriate it from white people?
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re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by tke857 on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to Chad504boy
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Loungefly85 on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to tke857
Sounds tasty. That's some black history I can get behind.
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by MorbidTheClown on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to LSUZombie
now EVERYBODY who likes fried chicken gets fricked because some folks can find a reason to complain about anything.
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Topwater Trout on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to tke857
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It's not clear who complained about the menu.
who hates fried chicken?
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Cole Beer on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to Chad504boy
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dare i ask what was the drink for the celebration?
Purple
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Chad504boy on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to Tchoup
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Nado Jenkins83 on 2/21/17 at 3:23 pm to tke857
re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and morePosted by Arkapigdiesel on 2/21/17 at 3:23 pm to tke857
That's damn mouth watering. This fricking society of offended people.
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